Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-03-31
DAKOTA ITEMS.

Office.
Real estate at Pierre is increasing in
demand.
Bowdle. Edmunds county, will have
brewery.
A Wisconsin colony win locate at
Dickinson.
The Kimball Graphic has passed its
fifth birthday.
Brookings has FIVE and one-half miles
of sidewalks.
There are six men in Rapid City who
want to be mayor.
Rev. b. S. Taylor and his praying
band are now at Lamoure.
Watertown will indulge In grand
calico ball on Easter Monday.
Stone cutters in the quarries at Sioux
Falls earn from S4 to 50 per d,y.
Since August. fifty cars of stock have
been shipped out of Bridaewater.
White, Brookings county, with $50
inhabitants, has u board of trade.
A temperance building association
has been organized at Grand Forks.
Editor Sage. of the st. Lawrence
Journal, will take pigs on subscription.
Lake county farmers are going into
the business of raising blooded stock.
There are $4,000 Canadians in North
Dakota, according to the Darlington
News.
Baptist and Methodist churches and
a new school honse are in course of
erection at Parkston.
The new opera house in course Of
erection at Grand Forks will have a
seating capacity of 1000.
jamestown expects the first agricul-
tural fair under the new law, which
appropriates $4,000 for the purpose.
On some of the ranges in the west
part of the territory the loss of cattle
during the winter is estimated ut 90
per cent.
The st. Lawrence Tribune has
changed hands again, and Messrs A. f.
Chiquet and Alonzo Waggoner have
leased the outfit.
A man named Bruno Vermeesh was
drowned in the Cheyenne river at the
old Pierre road crossing near Rapid
City, on Wednesday last.
Grand Forks has over seven miles of
water-pipes. forty hydrants and
pumping capacity of 2.5OoOOO gallons
daily. The works cost $4,000.
The Watertown Telephone company.
with H. R. Pease, president, and S52,-
600 capital, will put in a seyenty-five
exchange circuit within month.
Rev. John Eastman, of Flandrau,
visited the lower Brule agency last
week and in one day baptised eighteen
Indians and married three couples.
Il. +. Pettigrew and others were
granted a street car franchise by the
city council of Sioux Falls on the Gath,
and two miles of line are promised by
November next.
The Deadwood Cinnamon monopo-
lize the laundry, silk. tea and other
lines of business, and run restaurants,
raise pigs and chickens, and patronize
joints and joss houses.
Invitations are being sent out for the
fourth annual tournament of the South
Dakota Fireman's association, to be
held at Mitchell. commencing June IA
and continuing four days.
There are already about four times
as many candidates rs officers to ill in
the municipal election at Sioux Falls.
The places do not pay Il nickle in salary
while the positions give plenty of work
and criticism.
The kimbali Index says there is a
young man clerking in hardware
store in kimball who sold man
churn for S5, and in lien of rayn. ent
took Il mortgage on a team of horses,
harness and wagon.
A card has been published, signed by
a committee of the Knights of Labor,
pledging the support, influence and
vote of that organization to the law
and order ticket at the approaching
city election in Huron.
The Goddard Bros, proprietors of the
Sioux Falls Argus, have formed stock
company and purchased the Leader
and Mail offices. The consolidated pa
per will be known as the Sioux Fails
Argus-Leader. The company will
have a paid-up capital of $4,000, of
which the Goddard Bros. take four
tifths.
Since the passage of the Indian sever
atty bill a great many settlers are loca-
ting on lands north of American creek
near Chamberlain. on Crow creek res
ervation. The general opinion is that
bona lide settlers will not he disturbed,
rs Il large majority of the Indians have
taken their lands, leaving manv thous-
and acres of choice farming lands for
settlers.
iankton Press, "a: There is u desire
among Il great many Yankton men to
trying raising corn on Missouri river
sand bar, and it is probable that the
attempt will be made this season. 1t is
estimated that ears of corn, one of
which would make meal for horse,
Will grow on corn-stalks nurtured up
on II sand bar, an ; one man beholds "a
watermelon patch wherein melons re-
sembling the ancient mounds are more
numerous than real estate deals in
Yankton just now.
Hurley Cemetery
The annual meeting of the members
of the Hurley Cemetery association
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